Tham khảo tài liệu 'lexical categories verbs nouns and adjectives phần 2', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Goals methods and outline of the current work 19 Functionalists approaches rarely seem to get beyond the simplest data whereas generative approaches often seem obsessed by the most baroque details I hope to be responsive to both. I will fail in these goals of course to varying degrees. But that is no excuse for not having the right goals. Background theoretical assumptions The lexical categories are a topic that spans many of the traditional divisions of linguistics including inflectional morphology derivational morphology syntax and semantics. I intend not to worry much about these distinctions but to seek accounts of the differences among the categories that show up in all four domains in a unified way. With respect to the morphology-syntax boundary this is a principled view I believe that many aspects of morphology can in fact be attributed to head movement and other syntactic processes Baker 1988c Baker 1988a Baker 1988b Halle and Marantz 1993 Halle and Marantz 1994 Baker 1996b . With respect to the syntax-semantics boundary this is more a view of convenience. For important parts of my theory I present both a semantic intuition and a syntactic principle or representational device that expresses that intuition leaving open questions about which of these is primary. On the one hand it could be that the semantics is primary and the syntactic principles and representations are notational conveniences that can be eliminated from the theory. On the other hand it could be that the syntactic representations are primary and the semantic effects emerge from them as we try to make use of the peculiar cognitive representations we find in our heads. Or both could be basic in their own domains coexisting in a kind of natural near-homomorphic relationship. I will not much concern myself with which of these views is ultimately correct. It will however be obvious that I am primarily a syntactician by training and temperament. Therefore while I take ideas from the .
